Full Contents - January 2002


MAGAZINE ARTICLE

  • Small city, big dreams

  • The emergence of Qingdao as centre for manufacturing excellence shows that second-tier cities can prosper with the right mix of policies and circumstances.

  • Terms of accession

  • After nearly 15 years of strenuous efforts, China finally joined the World Trade Organisation on November 11, 2001.

  • Specific WTO commitments on goods and services

  • Tariffs, Banking, Telecommunications, Textiles, Agriculture

  • The Sun king

  • The 38-year-old entrepreneur Sun Guangxin is a dominant force in a diverse range of businesses in the remote Xinjiang region and he has ambitious plans to expand into other sectors over the coming decade.

  • Making sense of the Chinese market

  • Market research in China is more complex than in Western countries and foreign managers should not base important decisions on data that look deceptively scientific, writes Prof. Dr. Kai-Alexander Schlevogt.

  • Upwardly mobile

  • Mobile telephony on the mainland is booming but operators must look beyond simple subscriber numbers if momentum is to be maintained.
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